{"id":342,"date":"2012-02-09T15:31:21","date_gmt":"2012-02-09T20:31:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/littlesvr.ca\/grumble\/?p=342"},"modified":"2012-12-05T00:50:00","modified_gmt":"2012-12-05T05:50:00","slug":"lots-of-translations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/littlesvr.ca\/grumble\/2012\/02\/09\/lots-of-translations\/","title":{"rendered":"Lots of translations"},"content":{"rendered":"

Christian Perrier from the debian-i18n list has done me a huge favour. He created a tarball with every translation in every language for every piece of software in Debian!<\/p>\n

You may imagine it’s huge as did I, but I was shocked at just how big it is. Almost 2 GB of gzip-compressed PO files from the testing and unstable branches!<\/p>\n

I wrote a little script to extract all the po files from the extracted tarball:<\/p>\n

find | while read A; do gunzip -v \"$A\" ; done<\/pre>\n
I’ve no idea how long it’s going to take to run :)<\/p>\n
After that I’ll have to write a special PHP script to parse all the po files and add the translations to the database. there are going to be some challenges with that:<\/p>\n
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  1. It’s going to be very hard to notice if an error happened during parsing or insertion.<\/li>\n
  2. It’s probably going to take a very long time on current hardware<\/a>.<\/li>\n
  3. I might actually run out of disk space, since my MySQL databases are in \/var and that’s on the root partition and it’s quite small.<\/li>\n
  4. If my schema design isn’t great – I might have to scrap it all and go through the exercise again. This is, sadly, quite likely.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
    All solvable problems, and I’m happy that I already got to the point where I have to seriously worry about scalability.<\/p>\n
    Thanks Christian!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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